Hackers vs Painters

So, if hacking works like painting and writing, is it as cool? After all, you only get one life. You might as well spend it working on something great.

while i was lying back browsing my hard drive, i came across this article "Hackers vs Painter". i had downloaded it long back. while i was reading thorugh it, i felt, the generation today is very fortunate for having the exposure of computers at a very early age. but will these kids write better programs than the hackers today?. some how i dont see that happening. looking at a lot of college going students, i dont have the feeling that they are not interested in writing code or doing bug testing.

i remember the days in my college when i used to wait for more and more information on the programming, since it was a whole new world to me. with the programming experience of just over 3 years now, at times its still difficult to get a complete hang of some of the new codes that i come across. added to that, the programming that i learnt or anyone for that matter learnt in our masters, never had a chance to master even a single language or even spend enough time with one of the programming languages. but indeed they got me started off towards programming.

Had been to sentosa on friday. after the renovation, the place looks much much better than what i had seen two years back. the sky tower was the one of the best things. 131 mtrs above sentosa, from where one can see the whole of singapore. the musical fountain is still the same. which i found to be boring ...